HAVANA - Leading dissident Oscar Elías Biscet González was apparently
kidnapped on Friday morning (Sept. 10) off a street in the municipality of
"10 de Octubre" (October 10) here in Havana.

Biscet had been arrested Wednesday and released Thursday evening by the
political police. All that time his whereabouts had been unknown.

Later, Manuel Valenzuela Salt, administrative director of the Civic
Brotherhood School for Civil Disobedience, said he asked school member
Alejandro Chang Castillo early Friday to accompany Dr. Biscet from his home
at 464 Acosta Avenue to the School. As Biscet and Chang walked, a man
described only as being in civilian clothing grabbed Biscet by the neck and
shoved him into a station wagon which then took off at high speed. The
station wagon fit the description of those habitually used by the political
police for covert operations. According to Chang, everything happened so
fast that he didn't have time to react.

Biscet is the president of the Lawton Human Rights Foundation and an
advisor to the Civic Brotherhood School.